Chef Joey’s Super-easy Super Bowl snacks!🍅🎵🍡🍅🏈🍥🍢 … and a tune

Chef Joey is greeted enthusiastically 💙 by ICT and CECELIA readers while he’s shopping at the supermarket! Too cute!👏🍸

Super Bowl is upon us!🏈🏈

Text, photos and recipes by Chef Joey

It’s Super Bowl mayhem this Sunday! What better thing to do than make snacks that we can watch throughout the game?

Will Gigi🍎 watch the Super Bowl with Papa Joey and friends🏈💙?

Your snacks can range from anything that comes in a bag … to homemade. The best snacks, of course, are the ones you make at home. For example, skewers are a great way to get protein, and they look so pretty! And they last a little while…

You can take a cube of feta cheese, a black olive … dress it all up in tomato and dressing with a little olive oil…

… or you can take a piece of salami and add a cherry tomato and a small mozzarella … Ovalini … sprinkle with some Italian salad dressing. Voila! Italian skewers!

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You can take pumpernickel bread, spread it with spreadable cream cheese … top off with sliced cucumbers…These munchies last all day. They are a great snack, and my Gigi gets her protein!

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Here’s a so-easy Mexican dip! My friend shared it with me:

Take one Greek yogurt container and one jar of pre-made salsa…

Combine the two!

Now you have a healthy protein snack that goes well with vegetables or tortilla chips! All of the above snacks are inexpensive and healthy – for your Super Bowl Sunday or anytime get-togethers!

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If you’re planning on making your very own Homemade Salsa…From 💙PETA.ORG:

Festive Salsa🍅🍸

Ingredients:

1 Tbsp. roasted hot oriental peppers, chopped

1 cup fresh or frozen green or red mild to medium chili peppers

1 cup tomatoes, seeded and finely chopped

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1 cup white onion, peeled and finely chopped

2 cloves fresh garlic, peeled and finely chopped

2-3 tsp. vinegar

Salt and pepper, to taste

Directions:

Mix the ingredients together in a blender for a few seconds.

You should get a thick juice, with some chunkier pieces.

Makes approximately 6 servings.

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Salsa Fresca!🏈🐨

You may know salsa fresca by another name — pico de gallo. Both are a chunky salsa that is light on liquid but heavy on fresh ingredients.

Like many salsas, tomatoes are used as a base, but with salsa fresca, you leave your tomatoes diced but chunky.

Other common salsa ingredients are included — onion, garlic, salt, and cilantro — as well as small jalapeño pieces for a little kick.

Many salsa fresca recipes don’t require the use of a blender or food processor, but we like to use ours for a pulse or two so that the ingredients are combined – but just barely.

Enjoy!

Simple Salsa Fresca

Ingredients:

6 Roma tomatoes, diced

1/2 onion, diced

1/2 jalapeño, minced

1 clove garlic, minced

1 1/2 tsp. apple cider vinegar

1/2 tsp. sugar

1/2 tsp. salt

2 tsp. cilantro

Pepper, to taste

Directions:

Combine all the ingredients, except the pepper, in a blender or food processor.